This is the story of a translator, Fabrizio, who goes in search of a German novel and its author. His obsession ... John Updike kept writing even as he lay dying in the hospital: the man as ...

Our New Scientist Book Club has been reading Sebastian Faulks’s The Seventh Son, a futuristic sci-fi thriller in which a young woman answers an ad to carry a child that is, unbeknownst to her ...